B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 8 October 1993 at 21:00 involving a Vauxhall Belmont
A Vauxhall Belmont and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 21:00 on Friday 8 October 1993. The 52-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Belmont and the 14-year-old male cyclist were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 1993
- Friday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Belmont and bicycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62797, longitude -0.38708, in the WD19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19934100C0488
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4542
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 August 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 25 August 2011
At the same spotRef 20114100C1015
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 18 August 1995
At the same spotRef 19954100C0498
Serious
Lexus LS400 crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 23 September 2006
At the same spotRef 20064100C1032
Slight
KTM 125 Duke crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 16 January 2018
5 m awayRef 2018410262303
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 31 August 2022
6 m awayRef 2022411222241
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 17 September 1999
10 m awayRef 19994100C0558
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Belmont
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Belmont)
Casualty 2: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 14, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 19934100C0488 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Three Rivers road accident statistics for 1993.